The weather finally allows us to get our sugar scoop extensions sprayed, and they look awesome! We also finally assemble the hard top and get a bunch more jobs done as we are wanting to splash in 2 weeks!!!
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The final week was packed with so many jobs that we had to split this one up in two! But we are STOKED to have the new crew arrive, and make huge progress as we get one huge step closer to splashing after an amorous 10 month refit.
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Ladies and gentlemen, we are finally ready to splash! We throw a solid epoxy barrier coat onto Parlay's hull, then 2 coats of antifoul, and finish up a bunch of last minute jobs before she is finally ready to be launched after 10 months in the shipyard, an...
We did it! 4 years after buying Parlay, a hurricane damaged Lagoon 450, who went through 3 separate rebuilds, due to hurricane Irma, finding cracked bulkheads, and getting struck by lightning! But she is now hands down the strongest Lagoon 450 on the plane...
In this episode we get a professional rigger and surveyor to guide us through the process of tensioning our rig after repairing the broken bulkheads on our Lagoon 450 catamaran. He advises us that the worst possible thing to do on a catamaran is to over te...
In this episode we finally leave the marina after a 10 month refit, and sail to Playa Blanca! After an amazing time there, we get set to leave for the infamous San Blas Islands, but we lose our water maker the day we are set to leave, so we are not sure if...
We are sailing around the incredible San Blas islands in Panama, and the boys want to go for a spear fish, but we accidentally put 20 liters of water in the the fuel tank instead of gasoline!!
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We continue to sail around the San Blas Islands, where Tom develops an uncomfortable boil between his butt cheeks! We move to Cambombia island to celebrate New Years, where the big man Jamie himself arrives just in time for the celebrations!
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We continue to sail around the San Blas islands in Panama on our hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 catamaran, exploring a few of the anchorages, where we meet up with one of our patreons who lets us use his E-foil, an electric foiling paddle board!
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We get challenged to a race by our friend on a Nautitech 46, as well as an Outremer 51, Lagoon 380, Leopard 44, and a Halberg Rassey also comes along for the race against our hurricane damaged Lagoon 450! Well, it is actually a Jamie 465 now, as we extende...
As we bounce around the San Blas islands, Panama, Colin decides to give some lessons to the new crew, from anchoring, to flying a spinnaker! We also meet up with Plucky from Sailing into Freedom, where he smokes a huge grouper for the crew!
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In this episode we do a full lithium installation of 1000Ah of battle born batteries. This is 10 x 100Ah batteries hooked up to a Victron distribution bus. We also have 3kW of solar which comes down to 4 x Victron charge controllers. We also install 2 x 3k...
In this episode we race against the first and original YouTube sailing channel, SV Delos! They are the pioneers of the sailing channel world, and it was an absolute honor to put their Amel 53 up against our hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 in a race to determi...
As we sail around the San Blas islands on our lagoon 450, we hang out with Brian, Kazza and Sierra fro SV Delos, and also Plucky from Sailing into Freedom. But as we are anchored we find a boat that has run aground so we leap into action!
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After a month sea trial in the San Blas islands we are able to finally assess the performance of not only the rebuilding of our broken bulkheads but also the sugar scoop extensions, which made the boat 1.5ft loner than she was coming out of the factory. Th...
In this episode we have to tear our galley apart as we have to fit a huge 160 Liter Isotherm fridge into the space of our old one! We also have a small incident where we lose a very important key of ours in the ocean so go free diving to try find it.
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As usual, boat life brings its fair share of challenges. And having a main saloon window pop out and also losing a main engine put us in a pickle before having to go get measured for the Panama Canal....
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In this episode we try to meet up with our buddy boat on his Lagoon 450, as we leave shelter bay to head to bocas del toro, but things to not go to plan...
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We sail from Shelter Bay Marina in Panama on our hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 catamaran, and our buddy boat David Shih Sails also comes with us after repairing his broken bulkheads in Linton bay. But one thing leads to another for them, including them gett...
We have an action packed episode this week as we hit the 200,000 subscriber mark on youtube! We take you along as we get a custom made surfboard made for us by Courtney Parks, the owner of Tropix surfboards in Bocas del Toro, Panama. I then interview my fr...
This week we continue to sail around the un-charted waters of Bocas del Tor, Panama, where we explore red from beach, and dolphin bay! SV Parlay is a hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 catamaran, which Colin rebuilt with friends and has started sailing around th...
In this episode we continue to sail round Bocas del toro, Panama, and Colleen gets a chance to skipper the boat from Dolphin bay back to Isla Colon! We also see the final result of the surfboard Courtney made for me, if you are in the area and want to buy ...
We enter the Bocas del toro annual regatta, which we actually started in 2019, and have raced in every regatta since then. There is another lagoon 450 in the race, so its a great opportunity to see whether our bulkhead repairs and sugar scoop extensions ac...
This is part 2 of the bocas del toro regatta, where we end up being in a close race against 2 catamarans much larger than us. We had to try a few different tactical moves to beat these boats with higher hull speeds, which was a fun day had by all!
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As we sail from Bocas del toro, Panama, to Shelter bay, to get ready to cross the Panama Canal, the most unexpected thing happens. We lose our steering system, and have to troubleshoot what possibly went wrong...
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This is part 1 of a 2 part series about our transit of the famous panama canal, in our previously hurricane damaged lagoon 450 catamaran. We leave shelter bay early in the morning, pick up the canal advisor, and set off into the first chambers, and into th...
In part 2/2 of the canal episodes we learn more and more bout how the canal process works, what the costs are for some of the worlds largest ships, and pop the out other side into the Pacific Ocean!
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This is day 1 of our 2 day Patreon sailing trip in Panama City, Panama, on our lagoon 450. This is the most number of people that have sailed on parlay at once, so we were curious to see how she performs...
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This is day 2 of our 2 day sailing adventure with some of our incredible patreons, who flew all the way down to Panama to hang out with us. Turned into 2 of the best days we have ever had on Parlay.
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We have been contemplating whether to sail across the pacific to New Zealand this season, but came to the conclusion that it would be best to sail there early next year, and instead we will sail all the way up to Mexico. There was a lot of thought that wen...
Super fun episode this week as the crew goes on a little fishing trip, but when they get back they find the girls have blocked their toilet! Badly!
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Join us as we continue to sail up the pacific coast of Panama towards Costa Rica. Sailing always presents its fair share of challenges, and sometimes the weather cooperates, but sometimes it doesn't, so you're left with the dilemma of what to do on the pas...
This week we sail around Santa Catalina, Panama, in search of good waves and epic diving! We anchor right in front of an amazing white sandy beach, and celebrate Jamie's birthday in style!
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This week we head out to Coiba national park in Panama, to see if we can dive with some huge resident Bull sharks out there. We take a dive guide Jose with us, from Panama Dive Center, and set sail on our lagoon 450 catamaran to see what we can find. As a ...
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